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Zentangles!

Zentangles. Or..doodles with patterns. I&#039;ve discovered a very relaxing hobby. Something that forces you to take a time out from life. I plan to start a notebook of my zentangles. The great thing is you don&#039;t have to be an artist of any sorts. Can you draw circles, lines, squares and own a pen? Then you too can make a zentangle.

Some links..What is Zentangle?
And a cool video of a zendala (a mandala zentangle)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Nlz4XMxcs[/youtube]
and how to start a basic one..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hscfey5N-pY[/youtube]

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I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them ... John Bernard Books

Indian Chief 'Two Eagles' was asked by a white government official; "You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done."

The Chief nodded in agreement.

The official continued; "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?"

The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied.. "When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine Man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex."

Then the chief leaned back and smiled; "Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that."
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I&#039;m always printing out those mandalas and coloring them in. There aren&#039;t enough of those in the world. I like the idea of zentangles, but only because I would want to color them after I was done. This actually would save me the trouble of finding them online...

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[quote author=OpenHands link=topic=1473.msg31023#msg31023 date=1296186298]
I saw someone doing these recently and incorporating the designs into a quilt, very cool!
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Its perfect for a crazy quilt.

...or embroidery

“You have never answered but you did not need to. If I stand at the ocean I can hear you with your thousand voices. Sometimes you shout, hilarious laughter that taunts all questions. Other nights you are silent as death, a mirror in which the stars show themselves. Then I think you want to tell me something, but you never do. Of course I know I have written letters to no-one. But what if I find a trident tomorrow?" ~~Letters to Poseidon, Cees Nooteboom

“We still carry this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a primal recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth. It is a felt reverence for all that exists. Once we bring this foundational quality into our consciousness, we will be able to respond to our present man-made crisis from a place of balance, in which our actions will be grounded in an attitude of respect for all of life. This is the nature of real sustainability.”
~~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes--one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
~~Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

"Humans are not rational creatures. Now, logic and rationality are very helpful tools, but there’s also a place for embracing our subjectivity and thinking symbolically. Sometimes what our so-called higher thinking can’t or won’t see, our older, more primitive intuition will." John Beckett

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[quote author=B. de Corbin link=topic=1473.msg31069#msg31069 date=1296211669]
I do this all the time - I didn&#039;t know it was &quot;official.&quot; This is how I get a lot of designs for things I make later - it is, to visual art, what &quot;freewriting&quot; is to writing.
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Me too! Never knew it had a name, though we used to sometimes refer to it as doodling years ago. I like it because I can let my hand draw (or mind is it?) draw what it wants. I try not to intentionally interfere with what happens on the paper.

Gargoyles watch over me...I can hear them snicker in the dark.

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